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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2015 FIND YOUR CREATIVE SIDE IN SMITHER PARK If you want to add a little whimsy to your life, take a trip to Smither Park. What makes it so special? Highly complicated mosaic walls, a grotto in ...

What started as a group of art adventurers trying to out-discover and out-entertain each other in 1986 has turned into the award-winning Eyeopener Tour series. Over 15,000 guests have toured visionary folk art environments and collections that make you stop, ...

Marketing director Stephen Bridges tells me, half in jest, that all of Houston is only a backdrop for the Orange Show. He has a point. Mexicali colors. Check. Anything goes. Check. Quirky context. Check. Just a few miles east of ...

Released: March 11th, 2011 04:00 PM

Author: Ashley Duffy

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Website:Preserving Outsider Art at the Orange Show and Beer Can House by David Andrews The happy colors and flaking paint. He ponders that. I ask him why it closed. La economia. Satisfied, he heads on up the road. And when the sun does shine, it is powerfully crystalline, illuminating all the facets of t

Marketing director Stephen Bridges tells me, half in jest, that all of Houston is only a backdrop for the Orange Show. He has a point. Mexicali colors. Check. Anything goes. Check. Quirky context. Check. Just a few miles east of ...

Released: March 11th, 2011 04:00 PM

Author: Ashley Duffy

Email:

Website:Preserving Outsider Art at the Orange Show and Beer Can House by David Andrews The happy colors and flaking paint. He ponders that. I ask him why it closed. La economia. Satisfied, he heads on up the road. And when the sun does shine, it is powerfully crystalline, illuminating all the facets of t

Yet Houston has its share of oddball wonders, too, led by heavy hitter the Orange Show. Postal worker Jeff McKissack worked on it from 1956 until his death in 1980, crafting a 3,000-square-foot homage to his preferred citrus. The meandering ...

Volunteer with the Orange Show at Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park! March 25, 26 and 27, 2011 It's festival time again, and we love the Memorial Park Bayou City Art Festival most of all! The Orange Show is again ...